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What is a token in an LLM?

In short

A token is a small chunk of text, often a word or part of a word, that a language model reads and generates one piece at a time. Models break text into tokens before processing it, so a sentence might be several tokens long. Tokens matter in practice because they determine how much text fits in a request and how usage is priced.

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